Quotes of: Commentary Keyword

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

David Fincher

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

Nikos Kazantzakis

There is a payoff for examining the divine author's literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah's actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God's reactions (although miraculous) are only described in sparse,...

a commentary on Jonah

[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology...

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary

All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.

The Complete Essays

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Shel Silverstein

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

Adam McKay

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

Elayne Boosler

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Joni Mitchell

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

Charles Dance

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

Chuck Schumer

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

Matt Groening

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Oscar Robertson

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Ori Gersht

The believer caught between the flesh and Spirit is also caught between death and life. That is what happens when God intervenes in a human life. That intervention does not necessarily bring tranquility. In fact, it is more likely to bring tension an...

Romans: A Bible Commentary for Every Day

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to ...

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

Richie Benaud

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

Damian Marley

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

Tina Brown